Wirecast is an all-in-one live streaming production application that provides the required tools to capture video, encode it and broadcast it to multiple servers and platforms at the same time.

Support for a wide variety of camera models

You can use Wirecast with an unlimited number of camera inputs ranging from web cams to DV/HDV, SDI cameras to IP and web-based sources and wireless devices. You just have to plugin your device and Wirecast will automatically recognize it as a live feed.

What is more, you can use Desktop Presenter to broadcast your own desktop if you need to display Keynote or PowerPoint presentations, product demonstrations, online interviews or game streams.

Layer-based editing system

Moreover, Wirecast features support for up to 35 layers of live compositing. Hence, you can effortlessly place watermarks, background music and other visual elements over your webcast.

As expected, you can also add titles and lower thirds, with more than 30 built-in professional looking broadcast title themes. You just have to select the one that fits your content, type in the text and apply it to your broadcast.

You can also use well-designed transitions to switch from different sources and generate effects and transitions in real time.

Live stream

By using Wirecast, you can easily stream to multiple destinations using different bitrates at the same time. Thus, you can stream in both SD and HD to a live streaming service and even your own internal streaming server.

You can stream and or save your production to your Mac’s hard disk if you intend to archive the video or distribute it on-demand. Wirecast’s External Display Output feature helps you display your live Wirecast stream on an external monitor for your in-house audience.

WHAT’S NEW

Version 11.0:

New Features

Re-engineered WebStream plug-in with much broader format, codec and network transport support. This is hosted in a new out of process architecture that protects Wirecast from any failure in the plug-in. This enables HLS and MPEG-DASH ingest

Configurable latency of all WebStream network devices

Improved discovery of ONVIF devices from the same vendor

Stinger Transition support. Through the new stinger transition configuration panel, you can setup movies to use as custom transitions. Support for Apple Animation, ProRes and CineForm alpha channeled QuickTime content

Added panel for configuring the build in & out animations used when the ‘Smooth transition is selected

The virtual camera driver for macOS has been rewritten for faster performance and better compatibility with host applications, including sandboxed apps

Added option to horizontally flip the video going to the virtual camera

Wondered what the Touchbar was for? Wonder no longer: Wirecast adds a quick shot switcher to the Touchbar

Improvements

On-going performance work: Wirecast 11 is speedier than ever, with quicker startup times, significantly faster drop shadow on macOS, and lower CPU on rendering. We’ll continue to build on this work with every release

PTZ support for VISCA over UDP for PTZ Optics & Lumens cameras. Other brands utilizing VISCA UDP may work but are not officially supported

New ‘Add Reference

workflow when adding a new shot or layer to control how sources are created

Support for Facebook Live Donations

Unlimited pagination for Facebook Live Groups and Pages

Enabled users with Publish permissions to post to Facebook Groups

Switched to the v5 API when publishing to Twitch

Added ‘Clear Menu

in the Recent Documents menu

Improved UI layout of Welcome window

Enabled copying the license number from Preferences to the clipboard

Changed the scale of the data-rate statistics to Mb/s if the data-rate goes over 10,000 Kb/s

Added support for TLS v1.2 for RTMPS on Windows

Indicate an expired support subscription in the Preferences

Lowered Telestream Cloud supported bitrates to 1.25 Mbps

Restrict custom canvas size to 1/20 ratio in either dimension

Change polling rate of Widget sources with text files to 1/10 of a second

Change the name of Web Display source to Web Page

Enable HTTPS login for Facebook (this affects any released version of Wirecast with the Facebook Destination)

Facebook Live

Portrait (9:16 Aspect Ratio) Encoding Setting

Fixes

macOS only: Virtual Camera does not work in sandbox apps

macOS only: Virtual Camera does not work in Skype for Business

Go button red dot is off-center

Adding a Screen Capture from the Add Source UI duplicates the source and uses excessive resources